Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct anti-United States propaganda. . . . The Third International [world Communist propaganda bureau with headquarters in Moscow] appears to be so far from conducting such activities that I was amused to find the other day that only two out of the five principal officials in charge had any definite idea where Nicaragua was. . . . The statement of Mr. Kellogg contains naive untruths. . . . He is only following the example of the British Tories who counterfeited a letter supposed to have been written by a former director...
...actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea of the 'Rhapsody in Blue,' but they aren't anything alike." And, "I like Gershwin. I saw him once...
...American educators in China have spread the doctrine of revolution by giving prominence to American history textbooks. From these many Chinese have gotten the idea that a new era dawned on the world when the American colonies broke away from England. Believing that American greatness began with revolution, the Chinese have followed suit with revolutionary movements of their own. . . . Someone ought to protest against such dissemination in the Orient of the poisonous idea that revolution is a necessary antecedent to prosperity...
...philosopher looking for tendencies of thought and modern ideals may see in much of modern biography the fruit of the democratic idea, that all men are created squal. Since all men are not equally good, they must be equally bad. The more practically minded may point out merely that historical scandal-mongering is a profitable business, without the dangers attendant upon libelling the living...
Crew work this year is being conducted on a plan somewhat different from that of previous years. The underlying idea is to give every man every possible opportunity to demonstrate his ability. With this in mind, there was no effort made last fall to grade the crews. There were some fourteen crews on the University squad at the beginning of fall rowing. These crews had several races of various distances in which every man had an opportunity to show what he could do. Towards the end of the season, a very indefinite ranking of the crews was attempted. Then followed...